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330 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
The conclusion we may draw from the analysis of the Korherr report
is that the “special treatment of Jews” stood only for the deportation of
western Jews (those from the Altreich with Sudetenland, Ostmark and
Protectorate) and of the eastern Jews (those from Ostgebiete with Bialystok
and General Government with Lemberg) to the East, i.e. beyond
the confines of the Greater German Reich. The Jews deported within
these confines, in particular the roughly (121,428+8,500=) 130,000
Jews sent to Auschwitz, were not subjected to “special treatment.” 1010
Neither were the 69,084 Jews deported from the Altreich, Ostmark, Protectorate,
and Slovakia to Nisko and the Lublin district formally subjected
to it. We say formally, because they acquired the status of “specially
treated” (sonderbehandelt) gradually as they were transited from
the Polish ghettos through the various camps. 1011 This is also true for the
18,004 Jews deported to Theresienstadt and then from that ghetto to
Treblinka. In practice there was a double accounting system: one for the
Jews evacuated from individual countries, and one for the Jews who
were transited through the above camps and who were counted independently
of their origin.
Within the scope of Aktion Reinhardt the count of the western Jews
was, in fact, based on the transport lists of which SS-Obersturmführer
Helmut Pohl in Lublin received two copies in his quality as Head of
Resettlement at Lublin. 1012 Here the western Jews in transit were
counted again as arrivals (Zugang) or as transited (durchgeschleust) to
Majdanek or the other camps.
Question,” chapter 10: “Be��ec’s dead: burning of the corpses,” in:
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Be��ec1/bel000 html.
1010 At Auschwitz, however, the term “Sonderbehandlung” had an analogous meaning but on
a smaller scale; it designated the Jews who, as part of Ostwanderung, were transited
through the camp on their way to the Durchgangsghettos in the eastern territories.
1011 The 12,021 Jews sent to Sobibór were part of those evacuated and not of those specially
treated (sonderbehandelt), therefore they were not quickly transited (durchgeschleust) either
through this camp, but were probably spread over the whole area, as is suggested by
the transport of 9 May 1942 mentioned above for work on Wasserwirtschaft and
Entwässerung. Cf. also chapter 7.
1012 J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 70), p. 237.